A diagnostic electronic reporting framework proposal using preassigned automated coded phrases.

Radiologists daily diagnose a large number of Chest X-rays and it is crucial that these reports are appropriately recorded, meaningfully indexed, carefully stored, easily retrieved, shared and printed. The absence of organized reports' storage does not permit their direct and easy retrieval, while after almost a year the report is perished and not even readable (handwritten or typed). The scope of this paper is to evaluate and propose the use of preassigned automated-coded phrases for the chest X-ray electronic reporting in a Radiology Department.

Economic evaluation of telemedicine for a remotely located population: the case of two Greek islands.

A 12-month trial with telemedicine was conducted at two remote health centres located on Greek Islands, namely Lemnos and Skyros, where combat units of the Greek Airforce are situated. The units' medical services are supported by the 251st Central Hospital of the Greek Airforce in Athens, via a PC-based ISDN videoconferencing link, connected at 384 Kbps. Thirty-eight patients were recruited for the trial.